The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-02
Questions Answered.

II. r., MIDDLEBURY.-Your motto
as special examiner of the pension
office" Doing justice to claimants is
doing duty to the government SIS I'M
eXceptionable.
l.. NJ. g., PLYMOUTH, n. H.-No
one can tell what congress will really
do for the soldier, any more than he
can tell what the verdict of a jury will
be before it is delivered in court.
&. D., ST. JoHNsBURY.-A notary
public or justice of the peace is en-
titled to twenty-five cents for taking an
acknowledgment of paper or voucher.
Ii he wrote out long affidavit, he
would be entitled to pay also for writ
ing it. One dollar is not an unreason-
able charge in the case named.
M. c., WATERBURY.-If your hus-
band received 500 bounty prior to his
death, that amount is all that could now
be collected on account of his service
in the army. The bounty provided for
by the act of July 26, 1866, cannot be
collected unless an application was
made for it prior to July |, 1880.
G. N, HYDE PARK.-The soldier
who served in the war of 1912 and died
in 1910 did not leave any claim for
bounty land or other allowances that
could now be prosecuted and collected
by his daughter We think you are
mistaken in the amount due the SOL
der, as shown by the descriptive list.
The amount shown, as we understand it g,
was the amount due the whole company,
instead of the sum due each soldier.
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torney says he does not do much in
the pension business and wants a lit
tie information. He says: I" have a
case. The pension certificate reads
thus, This pension being for injury
of spine and right hip and resulting in
producing impairment of motion and
shortening of right lower extremity, re-
sulting in total disability, such as TO
render his incapacity to perform manual
labor equivalent to the loss of a hand or
foot The pensioner is now receiving
S24 a month. Is he entitled to an in
crease to $50 month under the recent
law increasing pensions for the loss of
limbs?" AnSWer,-The law to which
you refer does not increase pensions
for disabilities equivalent to the loss of
a limb, except where the disability is
located in the limb and the limb is as
useless as it would be if gone. If.
however, the pensioner to whom you
refer is wholly incapacitated for per-
forming manual labor, he is entitled to
a pension of $50 a month under other
acts OF congress. He ought to apply
for an increase of his pension.
G. r. X, EPPING, n. H.-This SOL
der had his index finger injured while
in the army in the Eighth New Hamp-
shire Regiment, and few years after
his discharge from the service his
finger became so troublesome that he
was obliged to have it amputated.
About twelve years ago, he says, he
applied for a pension through travel
ing attorney who was doing business
for a Washington claim agent. His
pension was granted, but before the
first payment was made he was ar
rested for fraudulent statements in his
application. He then discovered that
his attorney, instead of making the APP
plication for the pension as he told him
to, had made it to state that he lost his
finger in the service The soldier, in
stead of getting pension, got a term
OF ten months in prison. He desires to
know if he can procure a pension on
the loss of finger or for other disabil-
tiles contracted while in the service.
He says he is entirely incapacitated for
performing any manual labor. An
sUer.-You are entitled to a pension
on all the disabilities that you con-
tracted in the service and line of duty
If it became necessary to amputate the
finger from the effects of the injury of
it received in the army, you are en-
titled also to pension for its loss. If
your statement of the matter is correct
your attorney, instead of yourself,
ought to have been sent to prison.